Law 360 M&A

JUNE 14, 2023

ESH Acquisition Corp., a blank check company led by industry veterans targeting entertainment, sports and hospitality, on Wednesday announced the pricing of its initial public offering at $100 million.

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MAY 22, 2023

Benchmark Company analyst Mike Hickey named Activision Blizzard Inc. NASDAQ: ATVI ) as a top pick in the Entertainment & Digital Media sector and set a price target of $90. Benchmark Price Target: In regard to Microsoft Corp.'s

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Benzinga

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Nokia Corp (NYSE: NOK ) made several key announcements Tuesday, including cutting its financial outlook and sharing about a critical acquisition and a significant partnership. The company revised its long-term financial targets, reducing its 2026 comparable operating margin target from at least 14% to at least 13%.

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Benzinga

DECEMBER 18, 2023

After retiring from baseball, Rodriguez has found success with sports investments and launched a SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) in 2021 to tackle additional investments. The SPAC Deal: Rodriguez's SPAC Slam Corp (NASDAQ: SLAM ) launched in 2021, raising $575 million. Full story available on Benzinga.com

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MARCH 9, 2023

UBS analyst Manav Gupta initiated coverage of Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE: MPC ) with a Buy rating and price target of $165. Over the past couple of years, the company has paid out $19.3 Gupta's report comes on the heels of Marathon's acquiring a 49.9% billion to shareholders.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Spirit Airlines, Inc (NYSE: SAVE ) stock plunged Friday as JetBlue Airways Corp (NASDAQ: JBLU ) disclosed its inability to comply with every provision of the $3.8 The update sent the prices of the target company down 18% Friday. Earlier this month the companies shared their plans to appeal a federal judge's decision.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Arfstrom downgraded Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS ) to Sector Perform from Outperform at an increased price target of $140.00 (from $117). The move came after the company inked a merger deal to be acquired by Capital One Financial Corp (NYSE: COF ). premium over Discover’s last closing price.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Are M&A Contract Clauses Value Relevant to Target and Bidder Shareholders? The Company’s sponsor, private equity firm Chicago Pacific Founders Fund, L.P., The Company’s sponsor, private equity firm Chicago Pacific Founders Fund, L.P., more…).

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Law 360 M&A

MAY 15, 2023

Special-purpose acquisition company FPA Energy Acquisition Corp., represented by Ellenoff Grossman and underwriters counsel Shearman & Sterling, on Monday filed plans for a $100 million initial public offering, hoping to target a carbon-neutral real estate business.

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JUNE 13, 2022

Viridian Capital tracks all acquisitions by location of acquirer and target companies, and there have been significant shifts in the targeting of M&A activity between 2021 and 2022 YTD. The graph shows the ten most targeted states in 2022, arranged in descending order. The orange line depicts the percentage for 2021.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 10, 2023

A stockholder of a Microsoft Corp. merger target sued the acquired company in Delaware's Court of Chancery for records leading up to the $190 million deal, alleging that the company's common stockholders were shut out of pre-deal financing that diverted most of the merger proceeds to insiders.

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Benzinga

APRIL 16, 2024

Resideo Technologies Inc ‘s (NYSE: REZI ) recent acquisition of Snap One Holdings Corp (NASDAQ: SNPO ) has sparked investor interest. Both companies target the smart living market, with Resideo focusing on commercial security ,and Snap One primarily serving the home technology vertical. billion in cash. Analyst Cory A.

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Law 360 M&A

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Legato Merger Corp. III, a special-purpose acquisition company targeting infrastructure and construction-related industries, was slated to begin trading Tuesday after raising $175 million in an initial public offering, represented by Graubard Miller and underwriters' counsel Loeb & Loeb LLP.

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Law 360 M&A

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Blank-check company EPIC Acquisition Corp. said Wednesday that it has been granted a fifth extension to allow it to find and buy a target company, in a sign of a struggling European SPAC market.

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Benzinga

JUNE 16, 2023

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) cleared Amazon.Com, Inc's (NASDAQ: AMZN ) purchase of Roomba maker IRobot Corp (NASDAQ: IRBT ), triggering a rally in the stock price of the target company. Amazon announced its proposed purchase of iRobot for $1.7 billion in August 2022. Full story available on Benzinga.com

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Benzinga

APRIL 19, 2022

SPACs were one of the hottest stories in 2020 and 2021 but have fallen out of favor with many companies trading well below the $10 price after mergers have been completed. What Happened: During the height of SPACs, something often done by retail traders was connecting the dots between potential acquisition targets.

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APRIL 20, 2022

Yotta Acquisition Corp., a Loeb & Loeb LLP-led special-purpose acquisition vehicle targeting a number of technology industries, kicked off trading Wednesday after raising $100 million in an upsized initial public offering, as two other blank-check companies pulled out of their floats.

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Law 360 M&A

APRIL 13, 2022

Aura FAT Projects Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition vehicle targeting cryptocurrency and financial technology companies, kicked off trading Wednesday after raising $100 million in an initial public offering, with guidance from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP and The Loev Law Firm PC.

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Benzinga

MAY 9, 2022

A leading social media platform and dating company with a target demographic announced a SPAC deal after market close Monday. The SPAC Deal: Grindr announced a SPAC merger with Tiga Acquisition Corp (NYSE: TINV ). The deal values the company at an enterprise value of $2.1 Tiga Acquisition Corp.

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Benzinga

JANUARY 12, 2024

Chesapeake Energy Corp (NASDAQ: CHK ) shares are trading higher after Citigroup and Mizuho upgraded the stock following its merger deal with Southwestern Energy Co (NYSE: SWN ). Mizuho: Analyst Nitin Kumar upgraded CHK to Buy (from Neutral) at an increased price target of $104 (from $96). shale gas powerhouse (~7.9

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Law 360 M&A

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Panasonic Corp. said on Thursday that its heating and ventilation company will buy the commercial air-conditioning business of Sweden's Systemair AB, in a deal that values the target at €100 million ($104 million).

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JUNE 22, 2022

Kim Rivers , CEO of Trulieve Cannabis Corp. Now with the Cannabis Capital Conference returning to Chicago this coming September 13-14, Rivers will again share her insights on running one of the companies whose stock is among analysts’ top picks quarter after quarter. has come down to when it will take place.

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Benzinga

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PROTON CAPITAL CORP. (" Proton " or the " Corporation ") ( PTN.P-TSX-V 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PROTON CAPITAL CORP. (" Proton " or the " Corporation ") ( PTN.P-TSX-V The Target Pharmacy is a private Saskatchewan company incorporated on August 27, 2014. REGINA, Saskatchewan, Feb.

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Benzinga

DECEMBER 4, 2023

04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ZEFIRO METHANE CORP. AWS"), a Cambridge, Ohio-based wireline company. As a result of this transaction, Zefiro will become the energy sector's first comprehensive ‘end-of-life' provider for entities seeking to meet their well retirement targets. BRADFORD, Pa. and FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.,

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Law 360 M&A

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Special-purpose acquisition company 26 Capital Acquisition Corp. plans to liquidate after its failed bid to acquire the owner of Philippines casino operator Okada Manila, ending prospects for a deal that was tied up in litigation after the SPAC accused its merger target of stalling.

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MAY 26, 2023

NEW YORK, May 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wave Sync Corp. (the the "Company" or "Wave") (OTC: WAYS ), today announced that it has entered into a letter of intent (the "LOI") with Aiways Pacific Asia Inc., a target company (the "Target Company"), for a potential business combination (the "Acquisition").

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Law 360 M&A

JULY 12, 2023

Bowen Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company targeting businesses in Asia, began trading on the Nasdaq on Wednesday following its $60 million initial public offering guided by two firms.

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Benzinga

JULY 13, 2023

Imax Corp (NYSE: IMAX ) disclosed a proposal to acquire 96.3 The deal will likely unlock annual public company cost savings of around $2 million and tax efficiencies. Benchmark analyst Mike Hickey reiterates Imax with a Buy and a $23 price target. Benchmark analyst Mike Hickey reiterates Imax with a Buy and a $23 price target.

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Business Wire M&A

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LF Capital Acquisition Corp. II, a Delaware corporation (“LF II”) (NASDAQ:LFAC), announced today that it has entered into a letter of intent (the “LOI”) with a target company (the “Target Company”) for a potential initial business combination (the “Business Combination”).

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Law 360 M&A

JULY 21, 2023

Investors in special purpose acquisition company FG New America Acquisition Corp. have sued several of its executives and directors, accusing them of overselling the value of merger target Opportunity Financial, which plummeted by some 80% after the take-public transaction.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Healthcare giant CVS Health Corp. premium over the target company’s closing price of $33.68 premium over the target company’s closing price of $33.68 NYSE: CVS ) announced on Wednesday a definitive agreement to buy primary healthcare provider Oak Street Health Inc. NYSE: OSH ). on Tuesday. on Tuesday.

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Benzinga

APRIL 15, 2024

Tinga Valley Property highly prospective for large and high-grade porphyry style copper-gold mineralization and associated massive sulphide-magnetite skarn mineralization with elevated copper and gold-silver grades with several large high priority drill targets already identified over a 2.5km x 1.5km footprint.

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Benzinga

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Pacific Mining Corp. The Company is pleased to regain 100% ownership and control of Madison, which now becomes the Company's lead solely owned property. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. " The Madison Project was host to small-scale production, which concluded in 2012 with 2.7

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Known by many as the SPAC King, Chamath Palihapitiya was one of the biggest names associated with the growing number of blank check companies taking private companies public. When SPACs were hot with the market, Palihapitiya was loved by investors and companies. Years later, Palihapitiya has been less active in SPACs.

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Benzinga

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Analysts at Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE: WFC ) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS ) each gave Activision Blizzard Inc (NASDAQ: ATVI ) an updated price target of $95 per share Monday, following the news the buyout deal tendered by Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT ) may be blocked. These 2 Companies Think. antitrust regulators.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alpha Modus, Corp. Alpha Modus"), a technology company with a core focus on artificial intelligence in retail, and Insight Acquisition Corp. Post closing, Alpha Modus shareholders would own approximately 70%, excluding the earn out, of the combined company. About Alpha Modus Alpha Modus Corp.

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Benzinga

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Refined Metals Corp. CSE: RMC ) (OTC: RFMCF ) (FRA: CWA0) (the " Company " or " Refined ") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a property option agreement (the "Option Agreement") with Horizon South Lithium Corp. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb.

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